https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85441
Bug ID: 85441 Summary: Empty loops not optimised away Product: gcc Version: 7.3.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: sebastian321123 at interia dot pl Target Milestone: --- This code compiles for a long time and has high memory usage (roughly 2GiB). I suspect that empty loops are not removed. Code: constexpr double foo(const unsigned int N) { for (unsigned int i = 0; i != N; ++i) { for (unsigned int i = 0; i != N; ++i) { } } return 7; } int main() { return foo(4393u); } Command line: $ time env g++ -v --std=c++14 foo.cpp -o foo Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-libmpx --with-system-zlib --with-isl --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libssp --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-install-libiberty --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp Thread model: posix gcc version 7.3.1 20180312 (GCC) COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-std=c++14' '-o' 'foo' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/cc1plus -quiet -v -D_GNU_SOURCE foo.cpp -quiet -dumpbase foo.cpp -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -auxbase foo -std=c++14 -version -o /tmp/cc3hVZ3b.s GNU C++14 (GCC) version 7.3.1 20180312 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 7.3.1 20180312, GMP version 6.1.2, MPFR version 4.0.1, MPC version 1.1.0, isl version isl-0.18-GMP GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/backward /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/include /usr/local/include /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/include-fixed /usr/include End of search list. GNU C++14 (GCC) version 7.3.1 20180312 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 7.3.1 20180312, GMP version 6.1.2, MPFR version 4.0.1, MPC version 1.1.0, isl version isl-0.18-GMP GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 Compiler executable checksum: 3fb60f63f2e4dccab1b015b716b8b627 COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-std=c++14' '-o' 'foo' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' as -v --64 -o /tmp/ccO93I4M.o /tmp/cc3hVZ3b.s GNU assembler version 2.29.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) using BFD version (GNU Binutils) 2.29.1 COMPILER_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../lib/:/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../:/lib/:/usr/lib/ COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-std=c++14' '-o' 'foo' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/collect2 -plugin /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/liblto_plugin.so -plugin-opt=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/lto-wrapper -plugin-opt=-fresolution=/tmp/cckfgL6n.res -plugin-opt=-pass-through=-lgcc_s -plugin-opt=-pass-through=-lgcc -plugin-opt=-pass-through=-lc -plugin-opt=-pass-through=-lgcc_s -plugin-opt=-pass-through=-lgcc --build-id --eh-frame-hdr --hash-style=gnu -m elf_x86_64 -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -pie -o foo /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../lib/Scrt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/crtbeginS.o -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../.. /tmp/ccO93I4M.o -lstdc++ -lm -lgcc_s -lgcc -lc -lgcc_s -lgcc /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/crtendS.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../lib/crtn.o COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-std=c++14' '-o' 'foo' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' env g++ -v --std=c++14 foo.cpp -o foo 21.46s user 1.34s system 99% cpu 22.901 total I am using Arch Linux. I can also confirm this behaviour for --std=c++17.